08 March 2011, 05:30 am
Ways of Seeing: Rhetoric and Reality - The 7th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival
Programme Type
Festivals

Kelkunnundo (Are You Listening; 22 min; India; 2009) - Director: Geethu Mohandas A poignant film about the trauma of progress seen through the innocence of a visually impaired child

 

Metruk (The Abandoned; 11 min; Turkey; 2010) - Director: Orkide Unsur Condemned houses once shared good and bad moments. Now they are left alone for self destruction

 

In Space (16 min; Thailand, 2009) - Director: Visra Vichit-Vadakan

Short fiction film about a young monk who finds a safe space between the present and the afterlife

 

Bricks and Dreams (20 min; Afghanistan) - Director: Sediqa Rezaei

A boy works as a labourer in a brick kiln - his friendships, occasional visits to his family and his dreams for a better life

 

One Hope (20 min; Indonesia; 2009) - Director: Yuli Andari

Mrs. Sapiah collects bananas from the forest and sells them at the market

 

Top Spin (student film; 15 min; USA; 2010) - Directors:  Mina T. Son & Sara Newens A family working together to train one of the best junior table tennis players in the world

 

Light Falling On White Flowers (student film; 14 min; USA, 2009) - Director: Sandhya Kumar Isadora Duncan came to invent "˜Modern Dance'. Where dwells this poetic spirit today?

 

Playing the Taar (short fiction; 30 min Afghanistan, 2010) - Director:  Roya Sadat Short fiction film about a young girl from the Turkman-Afghan community trapped in a loveless engagement

 

Beating Time (40 min; Israel; 2010)  - Director: Odette Orr

Avi Kremer, a young ALS patient, decides to raise funds for research for the treatment of ALS

 

At 14:30

Is it Just a Game? (5 min; India, 2007) - Director: Shakuntala Kulkarni

An attempt to address and challenge issues of violence and viciousness within the politics of gender, caste and race

 

Made in India (documentary; 90 min; USA; 2010) - Directors:  Vaishali Sinha & Rebecca Haimowitz The phenomenon of "outsourcing" surrogacy to India and the business of reproductive tourism

 

Sosefina (student short fiction film; 10 min; Australia; 2010) - Director: Tresa Ponnor Sosefina dreams of escaping her big loud Samoan family

 

The Zone (40 min; Turkey; 2010) - Directors: Guliz Saglam & Feryal Saygiligil Seven workers, all women... Four free trade zones in four different Turkish cities.

 

17:40 pm

Death in the Garden of Paradise (20 min; Pakistan/ Canada; 2004) - Director: Nurjahan Akhlaq A meditation on a dream-like tragedy that transcends mere tribute to honour a family legacy

 

Coolie Gyal (8 min; Canada; 2004) - Director:  Renata Mohamed

Nostalgic reminiscence of an idyllic childhood is shattered as a daughter struggles to break the news about her sexuality

 

Bangkok Bloody Ramen (30 min; Thailand; 2009) - Director:  Navarutt Roongaroon Short fiction film about Ken and his wife arrive in Bangkok as ordinary Japanese tourists on a noodle tasting mission

 

At 18:30

Two Steps Forward (30 min; Pakistan; 2010) - Director: Gulnar Tabassum In 2000, over one million peasants started a movement in 10 districts of Punjab in Pakistan

 

Memories of a Forgotten War (61 min; Philippines; 2001) - Directors: Sari Dalena & Camilla Benolirao Griggers This experimental documentary about the Philippine American War of 1899 combines archival photographs, 16mm film and digital video to create memories of a forgotten history